Andre Balazs Quotes
I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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I am an inventor of music.
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I keep a really tight schedule.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Truth does not belong to an individual.
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In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
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I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.
